Oh goodness. The kid is into camouflage everything right now. He even has some of his dad's old uniforms (from before they pixilated the camo). If I did that he would rip it off everything although it does make a rather amusing mental image.

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Oh goodness. The kid is into camouflage everything right now. He even has some of his dad's old uniforms (from before they pixilated the camo). If I did that he would rip it off everything although it does make a rather amusing mental image.

Why are camouflage shirts/pants/hats pixellated now? I never understood that.

Oh goodness. The kid is into camouflage everything right now. He even has some of his dad's old uniforms (from before they pixilated the camo). If I did that he would rip it off everything although it does make a rather amusing mental image.

Why are camouflage shirts/pants/hats pixellated now? I never understood that.

It's "urban" camo, for fighting around buildings and so forth, as opposed to the desert and jungle camo of previous wars. (DS loves camo, and last Christmas day he wore his favorite clothes...camo pants and a camo shirt. I did put my foot down before dinner. I told him he was not sitting down to Christmas dinner looking like he'd just come in from duck hunting.)

Since nightscopes and a lot of visual apparatus is now electronics-based, the pixilated camo prevents the watcher from actually seeing the shapes. A square in a square doesn't jump out at you. A circle will do that. At least that's what DS said (he's in the army).